Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Bolivia

44.7% of people in Bolivia lived below the national poverty line in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 2016.

Measure: Poverty rate at national poverty lines Unit: % of population Data: 2016 to 2025 Source: World Bank
Bolivia, 2025 44.7% % of population
Change from 2024 +6.6percentage points 2024: 38.1%

Poverty rate at national poverty lines in Bolivia over time

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% of population. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Poverty rate at national poverty lines (% of population), 2016 to 2025
Period Bolivia
2025 44.7%
2024 38.1%
2023 37.3%
2022 37.7%
2021 36.6%
2020 39.3%
2019 37.7%
2018 40.5%
2017 42.8%
2016 43.3%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +6.6 percentage points from 38.1% in 2024.
  • Since 2016, when it was 43.3%, the figure has changed by +1.4 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources
Distributed by
World Bank, World Development Indicators
Dataset or series code
SI.POV.NAHC · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
2016 to 2025 for Bolivia
Provider update
8 October 2026
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (per series metadata)
Attribution
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, original data: World Bank, Poverty and Inequality Platform, from national sources